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

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

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

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