Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

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.

Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

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.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.