A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past..

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

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting ….

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

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself..

Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had c….

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure..

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..

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society..

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

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

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

In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruse….

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

I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and ….

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….

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist..

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

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

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

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….