I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

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.

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the axe. Millions of trees have perished. The homes of the wild animals and birds have been desolated; the rivers are shrinking, and many beautiful landscapes are gone forever. And why? Because men are too lazy and stupid to stoop down and pick up their fuel from the ground.

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.