Music is structure out of Chaos

The situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.

The only reason to write is from love.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.