Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

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

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

You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?