I have always worried about things more than I should.
The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
I've never had a very great public life.
My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.
If you want to design a successful human society, you need to know what kind of animal we are. Are we a social animal or a selfish animal? Do we respond better when we're solitary or living in a group?
In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U. S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously. . . and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.
The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.