Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
Talent is a long patience.
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.
The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.
Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.