Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

I can't remember what my first script was.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

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

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.

There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.