as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

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

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.