I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.