“Writing is the hardest way of earning a living with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.”

“You write a hit play the same way you write a flop”

“The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.”

“What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?”

“This was such bad writing that it was good.”

“All things lie dark in possibility.”

“Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.”