Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

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.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.