Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.

One must speak about serious things seriously.

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.

He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.