"In my house, I was surrounded by actors, by nothing but talk of plays and performances, so I felt it was more advanta…"

"All these hundreds of years, from the days of the oldest poetry collections, there have been poems about cherry bloss…"

"Every worm to his taste; Some prefer to eat nettles."

"You are being very demanding indeed. Where, I wonder, will we find the woman to satisfy you? You really should have s…"

"Children retain a great deal, and when they grow up they start going over things and rejudging them from a grownup’s …"

"The quality that we call beauty...must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in d…"

"Whenever I see the alcove of a tastefully built Japanese room, I marvel at our comprehension of the secrets of shadow…"

"My mother was remarkably slight, under five feet I should say, and I do not think that she was unusual for her time. …"

"Such is our way of thinking — we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and th…"

"Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty."