The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.

I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.