I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

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.

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

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

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.

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

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