The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.