Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

Good actors can tell you more about your play than 1,000 hours alone at your desk.

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

To be honest, I didn't even know what the Drama Desk Awards were until I was nominated.

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

These tapes have been found, which were taken from the desk and various bootlegs. At the time we never got to hear them, they didn't seem to be available or they just got put to one side.