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

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

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.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

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

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

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