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

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

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.

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

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.