While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't I've written 14 musicals now I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact than the richest without meaning.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we as women become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

Women want love to be a novel men a short story.

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

You know it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.