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

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.

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.

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."

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

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

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.