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!

The situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.

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

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!