Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.