When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.

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.

I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.

Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours.

I never got into The Jetsons too much.

My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid.