The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.

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

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.