Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.