If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

To advise is not to compel.

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.