Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?

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

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.

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

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

To be free is to have achieved your life.