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

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

Things have a way of turning out so badly.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

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.

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

I don't believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.