Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

People change and forget to tell each other.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.