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.

Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.