“It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.”

“It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.”

“Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.”

“It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.”

“From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.”

“From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.”