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.

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.