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.

Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.

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

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

Fear comes with middle age.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.