When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.

It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.

If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.