I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter

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

He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.

Madame Bovary is myself.

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

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

Exuberance is better than taste.