Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody