People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

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.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

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.

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

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

If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.