The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.

We've had this date with each other from the beginning.

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