Humor comes from self-confidence.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.

I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.