Write only of what is important and eternal.
Dear sweet unforgettable childhood.
It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn’t marry the right person.
The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.
A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.
I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that’s really is idiotic.
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
There isn’t a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.
I’m the seagull. No, that’s not it. I’m an actress. That’s it.
The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren’t aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
My holy of holies is the human body.
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!