Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself

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.

A sequence of random events isn't really random at all. It's just made to look that way so it will ensnare the unwary.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. Theres never a need to feel lost anymore.

You know the sting of losing or not getting something you badly want. When that happens show what you are made of.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.

There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.

I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.