While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.

To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.

It takes at least one to make a marriage.

I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.

Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.