When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

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

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.