I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

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.

I know the constitution in Oregon was passed in 1859. Free expression of opinion.

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.

Accept your failure, move on, and don't torture yourself.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.

The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.

Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.

He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.