My holy of holies is the human body.

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

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.

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.