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.

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.

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

Daily dance is my delight.

I love getting lost on purpose

The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

As an immigrant, you're constantly thinking about how you're perceived on a community level, and a lot of times it's just on a community level.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.

Lochie. The boy I once loved. The boy I still love. The boy I will continue to love, even when my part in this world is over too.