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.
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Luck is believing you're lucky.
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.