Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

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.

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.

The walls of the school can't stop the education.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

The cross is bigger than your mistakes, bigger than your regrets, bigger than the secrets you hold. The cross stands above it all.