Fantastic shadows of birds

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

All criticism is a form of autobiography

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.