It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.