Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it. - Anton Chekhov

Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.

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 own laws which do not concern us, or which, at any rate, you will never find out. Migrant birds, cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts, high or low, enter their heads, they will still fly and not know why or where. They fly and will continue to fly, whatever philosophers come to life among them; they may philosophize as much as they like, only they will fly....

In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish—that is their strength.