I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

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

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

It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.