If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

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 don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well.

I never write a play with an eye to film.

People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?

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