I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.