Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'

Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it.