Nothin’ sweeter than danger, boys, am I right?

You’re a witness. You’re always standing around watching what’s happening, scribbling in your book what other people do. You have to get in the middle of it. You have to take sides. Make a contribution to the fight. Any fight. The one you believe in. Until you do, you’ll never be a writer, Eugene.

Evan Handler’s new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

It was a limited engagement. When they stop coming, I limit the engagement.

Oh, well this month we’re sold out. Completely. You could go all over town, you won’t find a ticket to the show... Unless you go to the box office. He’s got racks of seats.

Don’t listen to those who say, you are taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don’t listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head...

Once you’ve opened yourself up, it’s best to go all the way.

I don’t like to see Shakespeare in a theater. I like to see Shakespeare in the park.

But you’ll see producers and theatre owners with a billion dollars worth of theaters come in here for lunch and you know why? Because it’s cheap. You see those pictures on the wall? All young actors and actresses who you will never hear about in your life... And when ’dis place is gone, the entire Broadway will slide into the East River.

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.