The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

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 have licked the fire and danced in the ashes of every bridge I ever burned. I fear no hell from you.

If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.

I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car. I want to go inside Fred’s soul and play there.

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it.

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron.

It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].