I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.

Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.

I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

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

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

-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.