William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up….

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me a….

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

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain ….

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 b….

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event..

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

When a society has doubts about its future, it tends to produce spokesmen whose main appeal is to the emotions, who argue from intuitions, and whose ….

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these ….

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

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car..

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

The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden..

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

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straigh….

All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communica….

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

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober..

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence..

When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them..

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