I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

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

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

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

Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

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