But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin' orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

I don't want realism. I want magic!