I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.

The unfed mind devours itself.

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.