I've always wanted to do something where I aged a lot, went from young girl to dowager.

There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"

I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based on every little fantasy I have.

I was very briefly under contract to Disney Animation, to develop ideas for animated features. They don't like you to use the word "cartoon" around there.

I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

I always tend to say "no" to everything, but now I've decided to say "yes" to everything. Now, I'm doing all sorts of things that I would've said "no" to before.

It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.

I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.

I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never be equaled.

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

... nothing, of course, is ever so strange as love to the one who is not a lover.

In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.

We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.