There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.
I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'
The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
