My Alma Mater Is The Chicago Public

The Product Of The Artist Has Become Less Important Than The Fact Of The Artist. We Wish To Absorb This Person. We Wish To Devour Someone Who Has Experienced The Tragic. In Our Society This Person Is Much More Important Than Anything He Might Create.

People Ask Me, 'what Do You Do?' And I Tell Them I'm A Writer, But Always With The Silent Reservation, 'i Am, Of Course, Not Really A Writer. Hemingway Was A Writer.'

I've Always Been Fascinated By The Picaresque.

Liberalism Is A Religion. Its Tenets Cannot Be Proved, Its Capacity For Waste And Destruction Demonstrated. But It Affords A Feeling Of Spiritual Rectitude At Little Or No Cost.

Every Scene Should Be Able To Answer Three Questions: "who Wants What From Whom? What Happens If They Don't Get It? Why Now?"