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

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

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.

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.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

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