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

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

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.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself

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

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

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."