Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

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

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.

I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.

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