I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.