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.

Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

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

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

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

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.

[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.