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

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.

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

I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.