Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to become, of all things, a Professor of Literature.

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

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

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.