Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

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

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

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 do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.