One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

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

He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.