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

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

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 ….

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

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….

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all..

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 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 ….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ….

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

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

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….