Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

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.

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."

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.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.