I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.