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

The happy problem of our time - longer life.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.

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