Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

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

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.

I believe in anything that works.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.