The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.

People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Nothing good ever ends.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.