The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

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

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.