I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.