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

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Just another four-letter word.

Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of a great worldwide human effort to know ourselves and each other a great deal better, well enough to concede that no man has a monopoly on right or virtue any more than any man has a corner on duplicity and evil and so forth. If people, and races and nations, would start with that self-manifest truth, then I think that the world could sidestep the sort of corruption which I have involuntarily chosen as the basic, allegorical theme of my plays as a whole.