I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.
Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?
To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.