Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."

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 every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

He is rich who owes nothing.

You will not invest in yourself if you think you are not worth it

When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.

It is not like every episode [of "Mary and Jane"] people are sitting around getting high.

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

It is not possible to make a certain evaluation...that cancer may be arrested if 'caught early'.

We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.

It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world.