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

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.

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

I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.