“The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.”

“Socrates should have written comics.”

“I have been vitally aware of the Law of Opposites, and this awareness has kept me reasonably serene… the drama of life… the play of truth. the quarrel of fools and frauds, male and female, the classic and the romantic, the disciplined and the free… the comic and the tragic contrasting of the opposites in all areas of possibility and on and on and on.”

“Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.”

“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”

“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel.”

“Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.”

“I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy”

“Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.”

“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. ”