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.

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

People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?

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

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.

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

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