Freedom costs you a great deal.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

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.

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

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

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.