We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
