A despairing arse will never produce a happy fart.

Live in your dreams, not your past.

Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

This world is not my concern; it is myself.

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.

No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.