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"I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other."
"I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage."
"Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending."
"How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security."
"Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other."
"Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages."
"You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type."
"Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though."
"There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling."
"I never write a play with an eye to film."
"I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen."