You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.

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

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

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.

Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.

Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.