To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.