“This was such bad writing that it was good.”

“Their singing wasn’t particularly good, but the feeling with which they sang was not bad at all.”

“You write a hit play the same way you write a flop”

“Writing is the hardest way of earning a living with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.”

“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”

“I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.”

“I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.”