I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.