"Time is the longest distance between two places."

"Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation."

"What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?-I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can..."

"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."

"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."

"I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion."

"To be free is to have achieved your life."

"Revolution begins in putting on bright colors."

"High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace."

"Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory."

"I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion."

"The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart."

"Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense."

"All good art is an indiscretion."