There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.
The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, containing a message of two words: "Hello - Goodbye!" and no address.
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I...
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.
Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.
Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that...
Time is the longest distance between two places.