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

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

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

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.

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

Styles in wit change so.

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.