They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.

I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

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

Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone

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