I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.

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.

Baptists are only funny underwater.

I never write a play with an eye to film.

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.

I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.