The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

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

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

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.

Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.