The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. Escape into the world of imagination.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.