If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
Stephen SondheimSometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.
Stephen SondheimYou move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
Stephen SondheimA song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.
Stephen SondheimSuccess is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.
Stephen SondheimThat's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.
Stephen Sondheim