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.

Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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