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

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

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

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.

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