| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote | | Conversation | To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
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| Creativity | Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively; I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream.
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| Death | Death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence.
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| speech | My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.
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| Voltaire | I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know -- namely, that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a dog -- just like a brute. That is his reward!
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