The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

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.

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

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.

The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood.

When I was younger I could remember anything whether it had happened or not.

Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.

I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.

There's nothing better than being able to give your children wings so they can soar and fly in the direction they want to go in.

Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

He was beautiful the way an angel is beautiful - timeless, perfect, remote.