Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.

I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.