Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.

I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.