A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

Writers don't have bad life days

Our thoughts are private to protect others not ourselves. People don't have the ability to handle what you really think about them

I realize I am alone and there is no one with me.Is this I wonder, how my whole life will be?

for fear is all the blind future harrying us and when the scales drop away the fear goes too

I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.