I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, "I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure." It doesn't bother me if people feel that way.

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.