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's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.