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

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.