on winning a tony

Look Mr. Sondheim, I made a hat where there never was a hat, and it's a latin hat at that.

Lin-Manuel Miranda.  Accepting a Tony for Best Score (In the Heights), in a shout-out to Stephen Sondheim.

on choosing

I chose and my world was shaken,

So what?

The choice may have been mistaken

The choosing was not,

You have to move on.

Stephen Sondheim.  Sunday in the Park with George

on friendship

If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?

Richard Bach. Jonathan Livingston Seagull

on death

Death is simply another way of being absent.

on love

You've been alone with your thoughts so long that you've lost all sense of proportion.