I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.

Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.

I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he th…

Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....

Je suis un galerien de plume et d'encre.

I've always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part. Someone once came up to Spencer Tracy and asked, 'Aren't you tired of always playi…