There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

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