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

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

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; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

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

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.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.