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 novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

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

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

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.

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

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.