Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
Where your life leads you, you must go
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.