It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.
You have as much laughter as you have faith.
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.
The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are
Die Dinge haben nur den Wert, den man ihnen verleiht.
Beer is made by men, wine by God.
In a way, the characters often do take over.
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
One may be humble out of pride.
There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.
The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.
Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.
Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.
Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.
