Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.