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

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.

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

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.

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