Luigi Pirandello

The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.

The secret of living is to find a pivot the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

When the characters are really alive before their author the latter does nothing but follow them in their action in their words in the situations which they suggest to him.

In his madness he became a terrifying actor!

You don__ appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.

One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to reestablish one's dignity, as if it were a tombstone to place on the grave of one's shame, and a monument to hide and sign the memory of our weaknesses. Everybody's in the same case. Some folks haven't the courage to say certain things, that's all!THE STEP-DAUGHTER: All appear to have the courage to do them though.