If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.