A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

Men hand out cigars. Women `hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!