I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.

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.

Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.

Your gaze is very powerful, but trust me, it won't open that door

‎The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Mine is a gruesome job, but for a scientist with a love for the mechanics of the human body, a great one.

Life is a most wonderful but wild dream.

Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.

I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.