Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

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

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

I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.

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

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

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.