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.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

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

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.