Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.