I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

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.

Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet.

Freedom is the decision to live and die, doing what you love.

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Open your hands if you want to be held.

In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.

My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

We need not hesitate to admit that the Sun is richly stored with inhabitants.