I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.