It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

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.

There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life.

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.

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

... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?