There is nothing new in art except talent. - Anton Chekhov

"All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still."

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

"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."

"Even in Siberia there is happiness."

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."