You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.