Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
I know all about the tyranny of women.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Luck is believing you’re lucky.
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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.
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light...
You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you ‘have a name’ is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath.
What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?
I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that’s sinful, then let me be damned for it!
Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.