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.

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.

I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.

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

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.