Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.