No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading
We are most artistically caged.
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
Words without experience are meaningless.
Let all of life be an unfettered howl.