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

Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.

Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!

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.