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

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

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

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

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, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

Education enhances the power and beauty of experience.

A knee to the balls from a car full of clowns would have been less awkward than the look he was receiving from the whiskey-eyed angel.

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.

Cybernetics is NOT the banana.

We also get thousands of suggestions. The default answer is always no.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.

In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.