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

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

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

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

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

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