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

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

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

as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.