Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.

Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.