If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

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.

Objectives are only words written on paper without passion and desire

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.

You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and caring about the poorer, more disadvantaged section of our country.

But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.

Things that are bad for business are bad for the people who work for business.

Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report.