A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

Criticism is a life without risk.

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

Burning Woman is a powerful image. A role model. A metaphor. A warning. A source of power. She is Feminine power incarnate.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike.

If the Nazis have been destroyed it's because America got into the war. They went for it and they got into the fight.

Have patience, heart.

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.