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

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.

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

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.

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

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