Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.