If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

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

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

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!

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.