Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will sh…

Now it is no longer a matter of deciding what to do, but of deciding how to decide.

When anger rushes, unrestrain'd to action, Like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way: The man of thought strikes deepest, and strikes safest.

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.