Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our movies that they not have anything to do with anything, that they be our never-never land; and if we demand this same function of our live theatre, what will be left of the visual-auditory arts - save the dance (in which nobody talks) and music (to which nobody listens)?

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

I am a Doctor. A.B... M.A... PH.D... ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.