The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.

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

Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.