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

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.

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.

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

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

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