Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today.

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

The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.

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.

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

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 you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.