When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.

To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it, of course, was to write about myself. That character was always the least fully realized. Eighteen years later, you realize, That's what he was about.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.