One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

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

Everything is there: the love of Art.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under the gaslamps, just as the sight of monks in their robes and girdles touches some ascetic, hidden corner of my soul.

I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those old aqueducts: there’s so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.