I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

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.

Everything, as Peyman said, may be a fiction – but the Future is the biggest shaggy-dog story of all.

Behind each and every difficult mountain is an easy valley. Keep climbing

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

Bankruptcy is like losing your virginity. It doesn't hurt the next time.

I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.

A false vision was better than none.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

Let's not forget something on this prosecuting Hillary [Clinton] business. It's not just [Donald] Trump supporters. Bernie Sanders supporters are gonna be among those who are not happy to hear this.

Be wary of listening to stories secondhand.