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“I'm always having to check myself and make sure I'm not over singing in some ensemble thing that will render me unavailable for participation in the stuff where it really counts.”
Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
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“Who's the world going to revolve around now?”
Source : "A Problem Like Matilda". Interview with Michael Schulman, www.newyorker.com. April 1, 2013. 
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“If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.”
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“Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.”
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“One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.”
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“One road was simple acceptance of life, the other road offered sweet peace. When I made my decision, my vision became my release.”
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“I'm fighting myself every day to get better.”
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“Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.”
Source : "Art and Culture: Critical Essays". Book by Clement Greenberg, pp. 31-32: "The Plight of Culture" (1953), 1961.
