For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.