I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

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

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.