My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.

It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.

Writing is a form of mischief.

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.