My father was often angry when I was most like him.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

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.

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

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

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.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.