If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.