Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.

Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you're the kind of person who's going to have that feeling about a dog you're definitely going to have that about a child.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't be able to write anymore, so I thought I'd go back to the typewriter. But you couldn't go back to the typewriter after using the computer.

It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.

Once in a while there were things in screenwriting that taught me things for fiction. But there's nothing in screenwriting that teaches you anything for the theater. I'm not sure I've ever fully appreciated before how different a form theater is.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear.