All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.

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

Adjectives are the curse of America.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.