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

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.

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.