A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.