A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.