As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in.

What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.