- [on the Pavilion on Fire Island] You don't separate the Pavilion from other parts that burned down. It's like St. Tropez] it's one of the great watering spas of social culture. It is the gray place to go during the summer, and it has been for many years, since I was very young. I hope they can get it ready for next summer.
- [his response, 2015, to the question "What is your favorite piece of work?"] They're all my children. I love them all. I'm not ready to go yet. I've still got so much more work to do.
- If you write a calm letter and fax it to nobody, it sinks like a brick in the Hudson [River].
- [In 2002] Kids don't see the dangers of AIDS anymore. It's not that they don't care, but they know they are not going to fall dead quite as fast as we fell over dead [in the 1980s] I am seen again as a prude. I always will be.
- [in 2002, re his script for the musical Lost Horizon (1973)] It was the one thing I have done in my life that I truly regret. People still laugh about it.
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