The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.