I feel that I speak the musical language.

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.