He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

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

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

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

I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.