A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

Goldie Hawn is funny, sexy, beautiful, talented, intelligent, warm, and consistently sunny. Other than that, she doesn't impress me at all.