It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent dis...
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
...human beings dream of life everlasting. But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.
...the human animal is a selfish beast...
Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
Security is a kind of death.
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
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...
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?
I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished...
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are t...
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.