I make decisions quickly.

If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love story is between the two ladies.

I was in the original cast of Wicked, and that got a bad review in The New York Times, and it’s the most successful thing that’s ever been put onstage.

I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?

I have 10 brothers and sisters.

If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.

Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.

My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home, or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

President Obama's made the White House really the people's house. People feel like they're welcome.

all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.

Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.