From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.