If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.

If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

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.

Man is what he believes.

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.