Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

I never write a play with an eye to film.

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.