Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive.

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.

Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.