Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

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.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

To be free is to have achieved your life.