There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.