When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.