A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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...
Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.
Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
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?
When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.
High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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...
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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...