I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

There's nothing as real as money.

A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.

It It only when I am alone that I really feel connected to the entire universe.

I have always liked a challenge.

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

It's just a spare room in my apartment. It's very cluttered and not particularly aesthetically inspiring, and it's very un-noise-proof.

...you need not do and be everything.

If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen.

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.