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.

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

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

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

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.