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.

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

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.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.

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

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

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.