Anton Chekov

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

I’m constantly reemerging in my life.

I know that god is real. I have seen him smile through the sunlight as it dances across your skin and lays gently at your feet.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

All heiresses are beautiful.

A man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Progress is a new season and the rule of progress is everything in its season.

You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.