I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.