Young, gifted, and destitute.

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.

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

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

He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.

Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.

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.