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

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

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.

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."

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

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.