You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.

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.

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.