Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.

I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.