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

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.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.

There are so many things that I would love to do. I'd love to do a drama. I just enjoy doing very different things.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

We know that we are close to making history.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

Help me by whatever you are pleased to do in your provinces.

I am gonna try again and again, because the moment I give up, is the moment I fail.

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure