Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.