When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

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