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.

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

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

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

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.