I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.

I can't remember what my first script was.

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.