No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

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.

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 city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

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.

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

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