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.

The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

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.

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

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

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.