Lillian Hellman

"People change and forget to tell each other."

"Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice."

"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."

"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."

"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."

"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."