The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box would you?... Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off-- I'm going to stuff you in this box now would you rather be alive or dead? Naturally you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all.

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.