Everybody is nothing until you love them.

I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on; change the angle; look at it in a different way tomorrow.

I talk out the lines as I write them.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

I must endure & endure & still endure.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.