Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.
Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.
If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.
Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.