"The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance."

“Don't be in such a hurry. That little white ball isn't going to run away from you.”

“It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2010.

“Only the poor can create art.”

Source : Speech at a public forum held at the Los Angeles Public Library, April 28, 2010.

“Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.”

“Do you know New York stifles me? It makes me so unhappy. There are so many things I want, and so many things I cannot afford to have. I don't see how people ever have money enough to live here.”

“I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.”

“A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.”

“A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.”