I read to see myself in other people's lives.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

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.

Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.

I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.

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