Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. – George Santayana
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different. – George Santayana
To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well. – George Santayana
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion. – Raymond Chandler