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.

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

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 neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."