To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.