Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

I don't really have a social life.

Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

The correct unit of study is not the play; it is the scene.

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.