A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

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.

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.

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.

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

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.