Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.