“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.”

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

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

“I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.”

“The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.”

“Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.”