Only the surest talents can deliver this offhand profundity; maybe Cuarón was thinking of "Sentimental Education," in which Flaubert's twin heroes, likewise, sign off with a touch so light it makes you cry.
To be sure, acquiring talent is far from the only means to advance as an incumbent, but building the core talent, technology and business model for future success has proven challenging for entrenched incumbents.
I am sad to leave but sure the talent here will continue to do great things.
"We are making sure that talent finds its way into the industry.
The big question is how more could be done to make sure that talent isn't missed.
"No choreographers have emerged here in a big way for a long time," he said, "but I'm sure the talent is here.
"We will make sure homegrown talent nurtured in the 'West Ham way' will always be given the chance to complement established players brought in from elsewhere".
One of the key challenges for IT Departments, as well as organisations more generally, is to make sure that talent is identified and developed.
Or making sure that talent within organisations is nurtured, rather than sidelined, and then progressed through the right channels into the jobs which - sorry to be blunt - white people for the most part usually get.
Ailes makes sure his talent is well compensated, and he enjoys theatrical gestures of support: he gave NPR's Juan Williams a $2m contract when the radio network fired him after Williams said, as a guest on Fox News, that he didn't like sitting near Muslims on airplanes.
The challenge ahead of us now -- and the way we'll rebuild our middle class -- is to focus our energies on making sure no talent goes to waste.
