I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never be equaled.

Joan Rivers is a very wise lady. We're good friends, and I find her very much an inspiration as to how to conduct your life, and how to remain very youthful, with ambitions and dreams. Anyway, she always says that she says "yes" to everything, because you never know which thing will click, or be thrilling.

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation.

I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based on every little fantasy I have.

I've always wanted to do something where I aged a lot, went from young girl to dowager.