He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

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!