To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

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.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

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

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.