I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

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.

Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.

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

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.