What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.

our value/belief system acts as aconditioning factor for our thinking pattern.

It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats

Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.

You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.

Look out for the people who allow you to do all the talking.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

When desiring ceases, the other world opens. The other world is hidden in this world. But because your eyes are full of desire, full of the ego, you cannot see it.

I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over.