I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

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.

Time...a maniac scattering dust.

When you realise you are just as ridiculous & just as #special as everyone else, you love them all.

Small changes in thought can bring massive changes in life.

Know not to revere human things too much.

Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.