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.

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.

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.

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

Achieving your goal is greatExceeding your goal is exceptionalExceeding your goal and teaching others is Leadership

Worship is an endeavor to bring to God that which costs you something.

America doesn't have health insurance.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

I think that every day we are taught lessons and sometimes we don't realize or see it.

In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.