Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

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

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices