That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

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

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail