Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

The only reason to write is from love.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.

Many people engage in physical relationships without ever experiencing intimacy

People are just so stupid.

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

I felt that what is personal is political.

Creation and creativity are inextricably linked.

I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk

To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.