Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

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

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

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.

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

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

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