A dramatist is a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

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.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

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.