We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

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.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.