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

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

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

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.

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

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.