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.

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

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.