The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

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.

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

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

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

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

Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.