No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

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

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

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.