I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

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

One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.