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

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

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

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

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75