"Men are made for happiness and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth.""
- Anton Chekhov
"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be."
"Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress."
"A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves."
"Man is what he believes."
"Conciseness is the sister of talent."
"Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better the present is worse than the past.""
"My own experience is that once a story has been written one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything ..."
"In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc; his job is merely to record who, under what conditions, said or thought what about God or pessimism. The artist ..."
"The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to."