The World Began In Hazard And Will

Each Age, Each Guilty Age, Builds High Walls Around Its Versailles; And Personally I Hate Those Walls Most When They Are Made By Literature And Art.

They're Beautiful. But Sad.' Everything's Sad If You Make It So, I Said.

That Is The Great Distinction Between The Sexes. Men See Objects, Women See The Relationships Between Objects.

Whatever Sympathy I Feel Towards Religions, Whatever Admiration For Some Of Their Adherents, Whatever Historical Or Biological Necessity I See In Them, Whatever Metaphorical Truth, I Cannot Accept Them As Credible Explanations Of Reality; And They Are Incredible To Me In Proportion To The Degree That They Require My Belief In Positive Human Attributes And Intervenient Powers In Their Divinities.

In Essence The Renaissance Was Simply The Green End Of One Of Civilization's Hardest Winters.