Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life.