The mountain violets break the rocks.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die — with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch.

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.