Richard LaGravenese

Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.

We have people in our lives who help us evolve along the way. If you're lucky, you find someone who evolves along with you, and that's what you call a long-term relationship.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

Paul Hicks is the only guy The Beatles will allow to arrange, mix and engineer their music, so he did the Cirque du Soleil 'Love' show.

Every marriage is weird! That's what it is - we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no normal.

The Last Five Years' was a musical in 2002, and it's a deconstruction of a marriage.

I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.

How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more benign, grateful attitude toward life than those of us who walk free. Many find a religious or spiritual stronghold.

If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.

A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.

The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her.

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.