It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.
I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.
The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.
I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention.
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.
At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.
I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.
Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.
I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script. There are certain people that are auteurs, and you accept them regardless of whether you see a script or not. But Spielberg is not an auteur.