The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.