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

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

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

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

The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

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.

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.