Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
