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

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

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.

Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.

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

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

[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.