To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.

I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.