I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

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.

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.

Parents are not worried about young-ones’ failure, but only concerned about their lack of efforts. Youth who understand and address parents’ dilemma are the forerunners in life.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous

I also point out that the Democrat senator from Maryland, called the Tea Party, teabaggers.

I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.

Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.

The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.