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.

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'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.

I stole that from Vito Russo. He said he was a devout believer in Judyism.

Never say never

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

Every decision that Donald Trump makes is going to impact his bottom line of some business that he owns all over the world. So it remains a huge issue.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

In America, we believe that competition strengthens us.