Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

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

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.