You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

The characters' lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you've killed them off.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.