Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

The beginning sets the rules.

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

God may be a human creation, but He goes His way, not ours.

Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.