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

Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

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

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

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

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."

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