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

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

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

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

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

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

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