When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

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

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

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