Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women