A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each other than telling a story through images. Of course, you're trying to do both. And there are some people who are brilliant at it, but I don't consider myself to be particularly good at it. My mind gets into a verbal mode.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

Uncertainty is the normal state.