The First Thing The World Does To

When Eras Die, Their Legacies Are Left To Strange Police. Professors In New England Guard The Glory That Was Greece.

Creatures Whose Mainspring Is Curiosity Enjoy The Accumulating Of Facts Far More Than The Pausing At Times To Reflect On Those Facts.

The First Thing The World Does To A Genius Is To Make Him Lose All His Youth.

The Artistic Impulse Seems Not To Wish To Produce Finished Work. It Certainly Deserts Us Half-way, After The Idea Is Born; And If We Go On, It Is Labor.

Babies Are Unreasonable; They Expect Far Too Much Of Existence. Each New Generation That Comes Takes One Look At The World, Thinks Wildly, "is This All They've Done To It?" And Bursts Into Tears.