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

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

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.