And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.