All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in analyzing everyone around me. . . . Eventually, all my friends' eyes began to glaze over when I started talking this way, and I got the hint that there might be something comical in it.

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

Where the terror is, you must go.

Winning the Pulitzer is a really mellow, fabulous thing. You don't sit and wait for them to open an envelope. You already know you won, and you have a nice lunch. Oscars are more stressful. I had to sit for three hours and wait for my category. I had to fly to Los Angeles. For the Pulitzer I just had to go up to Columbia. But, while the president of Columbia gave me the Pulitzer, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck gave me the Oscar, so that was better.

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough.