I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.
Why do you write like you're running out of time?
[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
My wife's the reason anything gets done, she nudges me towards promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us un...
The past places no absolute limit on the future.
In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.
I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette.
[ELIZA]You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals.
Ron told Pippa that during the six years he had spent on the book, Valerie Chernow had developed a powerful identification with Hamilton’s wife. She used to say, ‘Eliza is like me: She’s good, she’s t...
You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.
History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.
Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.
I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be represented in a way that's even close to honest. And I can tell you that the amount of Latino characters I can...
Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity
'West Wing' was huge. Like 'Hamilton,' it pulls back the curtain on how decision-making happens at the highest level, or at least how you hope it would be. The amount of information Aaron Sorkin packs...
Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listen...
One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I...
I was having a drink with Hugh Laurie, with whom I’d worked on his series House, and I told him I wanted to write a breakup letter from King George to the colonies. Without blinking, he improv’d at me...