To be free is to have achieved your life.

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.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

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.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.