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

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

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.

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.

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.

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