What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

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.

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.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.