Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back.

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!