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 h….

Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains for ever, following its….

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes..

Advertising is the very essence of democracy..

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture..

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out..

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers..

Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very p….

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not goin….

Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two c….

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but….

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witnes….

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to ….

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books..

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time..

The sea has neither meaning nor pity..

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards..

Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such ….

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a ma….

The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this id….

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle..