I take every possible side.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

My scripts are possibly too talkative.