My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

I can't remember what my first script was.

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.