Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

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.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

[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.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

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.