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.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.