If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.

He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.