If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.

- Irwin S. Cobb

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

- Honore de Balzac

Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without a doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.

- Marie Curie

10/29/99, 3:45 AM:

It would be better to spend one’s entire life in preparation for one great work than to spend it frittering away one’s days in pursuit of trivialities.