All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensi... - Anton Chekhov

"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."

"These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs."

"There is nothing new in art except talent."

"Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning."

"Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions."(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)"