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

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

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