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

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.

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

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.

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.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

The one from among the Muslims who recites the Qur'an but in the end finds his way to hell, is considerd to be among those that have taken the word of Allah in jest.

It's one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.