People need trouble- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... it could not live anywhere else.

Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

When I look back at Stairs to the Roof... I see its faults very plainly, as plainly as you may see them, but still I do not feel apologetic about this play. Un…

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we read…