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

Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal..

Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the form….

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

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

I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger..

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

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

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 ….

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 useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word..

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..

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….

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

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

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does..

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

The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered….

Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious..