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.

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.

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

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

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

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

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.