“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 the strong people really.”

“To be free is to have achieved your life.”

“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.”

“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 had a success.”

“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.”

“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”

“The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?”

“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 had a success.”

“We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.”

“All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.”