I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

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

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

Normal is the average of deviance.

Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.