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.

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

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.

Stay a child while you can be a child.

Gotta watch out for directors.

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.