The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

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.