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

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.