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

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

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

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

The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

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.

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.