In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!

I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.

I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

I go to screenings, then plays, then after-parties, then clubs.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

Everyone might think Lizzie's an angel, but I knew better. She was selfish, and she was going to pay.

What you read, and what you have watched and what you have listened is just the few from all... You haven't saw everything!?

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.