Friendship, Obligation And Greed Are Not Good

Oh If Life Were Made Of Moments Even Now And Then A Bad One--! But If Life Were Only Moments, Then You'd Never Know You Had One.

All The Best Performers Bring To Their Role Something More, Something Different Than What The Author Put On Paper. That's What Makes Theatre Live. That's Why It Persists.

A Song Is Such A Short Form ... That 'the Slightest Flaw Seems Like A Mountain.' And So Every Song Needs To Be Revised 'til It's Close To Perfection... But Achieving Perfection Takes A Lot Of Energy.

If You're Dealing With A Musical In Which You're Trying To Tell A Story, It's Got To Sound Like Speech. At The Same Time It's Got To Be A Song.

I Didn't Really Want To Write Just Lyrics, But I Wanted To Meet Leonard Bernstein. Music Was Always The First Reason I Was Writing Songs.