I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often I've had satisfaction there. When things go well in production, on opening there's no nicer feeling in the world-what could be nicer than watching an audience respond? You can't that from a book. It's a fine feeling to walk into the theater and see living people respond to something you've done.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.