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.

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 make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.