Beth Henley

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.