Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

Automobile in America,Chromium steel in America,Wire-spoke wheel in America,Very big deal in America!Immigrant goes to America,Many hellos in America,Nobody knows in America,Puerto Rico's in America!I like the shores of America!Comfort is yours in America!Knobs on the doors in America!Wall-to-wall floors in America!

Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.

I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!