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.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

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.

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

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

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