Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

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.

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

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

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.

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.