I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.