I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

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

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.