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.

[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.

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.

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.

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 got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.