There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.

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.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.