There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.