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

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

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

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.