Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball.

I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

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