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.

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

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.

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

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

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

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