Quality is the life of an enterprise.
I adore art. when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.