I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form..

When people drink, they talk, and talk is dangerous!.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak..

When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak..

The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who ….

I dream, therefore I exist..

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car..

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes..

Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, we….

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible..

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words..

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal..

The further from one another, the nearer one can be..

When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath..

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent indiv….

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love..

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with differ….

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationship….

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police..

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure..