Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

Even in Siberia there is happiness.