Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.
You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

