Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don’t be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.
Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don’t be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.
Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments, but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
A man who doesn’t drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.