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

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

Brevity - the sister of talent.