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!

The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.