What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

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.

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.