In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?

The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London.

From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.