Kenneth Tynan

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

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

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, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.