The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding the chin in doubt and the chin at bay.

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.

Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidityLet yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity

The essence of communication is intention.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with.

It is not what you say that matters. It is what you are and how you live.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.

If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.

I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy.