Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

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.

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

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

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.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

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