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

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

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

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

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.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.