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.

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.