If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin' orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.