There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

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.

I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple

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.

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.

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