Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

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.

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.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

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