I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

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.

Death is just the birth of yet another odyssey.

No mirror keeps its glances.

Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.

I'm super reserved in letting people in my house. A lot of guys don't trust anybody in their homes but they would trust somebody like me because I've been there.

If I could just get to Poland everything would be okay.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.