The night before the first performance he still had not written the overture.

The night of Sept. 30 he sat down at the kitchen table and wrote: 'I have always lived as a free man.

At 16:02 7th May 2011, A wet windy night in Stoke wrote: I think that the debate is losing its way here.

"Paddy told me that night, if you want to win an Oscar, write a two-minute speech for Georgie Scott."

The last night of his life, with a pencil and tablet, he wrote nearly all night and up to the time he died.

He spent his days at workshops, mastering manufacturing processes, and his nights writing what he had learned during the day.

What a great night to write a blog!

The night before our meeting Hamilton wrote a letter to posterity; it was on the order of a penitent monk's last confession.

"Simcha," he says aloud to himself, "the night you wrote that, you had too much Starbucks."

When he isn't performing, Burnham spends eight hours a day writing the music, and his nights writing the script, of which he's finished the first draft.