Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.

Life is just a Box of Chocolates.

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention; I was going to be a lawyer. Why? Because it was as far as I could get from my father's antics and world. I thought that the world of the arts probably led people into the kind of behavior I had seen with him and that had resulted in a lot of hard times for my mother and me.