Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.