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.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

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

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter