By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.