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.

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

Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good.

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.

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

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.