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.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

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

If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.