I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.