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.

I never write a play with an eye to film.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.

Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.