I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

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

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.