I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.