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.

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.

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.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

Happiness, laughter and joy abound, when friends, family, and lovers are around.

Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

That was the trouble with lies: it was very important to remember them accurately when, generally, they were the things you most wanted to forget.

You need to have sufficient resources against your priorities. Your eyes have to be open every day.

There are two kinds of audiences. There's the ones who were in the theaters, and the ones who are outside and we want them to come inside the theater. And, it's not the same.