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

Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining….

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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..

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

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

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

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

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 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..

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..