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

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!