You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

You will not drown the truth in seas of blood

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

When one loves somebody, everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.