When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.