Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.