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

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

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

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

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.