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

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.

There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

My holy of holies is the human body.