Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

.. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?

Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.

Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.

Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.

I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!