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

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

One must speak about serious things seriously.

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.