It’s Not A Lie. It’s A Gift

A Play Is Basically A Long, Formalistic Polemic. You Can Write It Without The Poetry, And If You Do, You May Have A Pretty Good Play. We Know This Because We See Plays In Translation. Not Many People Speak Norwegian Or Danish Or Whatever Guys Like Ibsen Spoke, Or Russian - Yet We Understand Chekhov And The Others.

I Used To Think I'd Like To Be A Fireman - In Fact, I Still Would - And The Only Drawback I Could See Was Coming Back To The Firehouse, After A Day Of Fighting Fires, And Still Having To Put In An Eight-hour Day Writing.

You Don't Know What Life Is. You Know Nothing.

Get Into The Scene Late; Get Out Of The Scene Early.

The Liberals In My Neighbourhood Wouldn't Give Away Brentwood To The Palestinians, But They Want To Give Away Tel Aviv.