To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.

I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that songs can be narrative without having a story.

There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.

After one of my plays came out, I had mixed reviews, some bad and some good. One day, it dawned on me. I thought, 'I wrote a play and he wrote a review, and that's the difference between him and me.'

The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.