Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

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.

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.