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.

Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young. Now, at an age when the wounds begin to heal whether one wants them to or not, Joan Baez rarely leaves the Carmel Valley.

Information is control.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.

In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.