Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

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.

A circle is the longest distance to same point.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

I can't remember what my first script was.