Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

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

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.