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

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

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

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me

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

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young

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