The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.

It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

The only way to smile at harvest time is to appreciate the invisible fruits in the visible seed. Hungry people are not those who have no seed. They are those who kill seeds!

People change and forget to tell each other.

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

Dinner, basketball game, four guys - classic.

In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

I just want to be rich and famous.

There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.