Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.