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

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

Love between a man and woman is war.

[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.