Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!

A circle is the longest distance to same point.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

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.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

I feel overestimated.