Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand. It is immodest and greedy to want more.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

He will lie even when it is inconvenient; the sign of the true artist.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.