A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

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

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.

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

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.