Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound.

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

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.

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.