Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

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

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.