Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.

I drink to make other people interesting.

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.