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

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.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

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

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.