Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

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.