If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love story is between the two ladies.

I was in the original cast of Wicked, and that got a bad review in The New York Times, and it’s the most successful thing that’s ever been put onstage.

I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?

I have 10 brothers and sisters.

I make decisions quickly.

The cross I made needs no man on its chest, for its eyes are where its heart is.

Maybe that's what writers do-Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.

The light within us gives power for good actions.

Oh ... My twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you bowls of ice-cream.

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

Love is meant for husbands, but my love for Hitler is stronger, I would give my life for it.

You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human