In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.