Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

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

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.