All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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.

Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.