Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty.

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Art should never try to be popular.

Every monster was a man first.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.