 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 city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. |
| Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist. |
| A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. |
| The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. |
| A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. |
| 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. |
| Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood. |
| What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober. |
| A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one. |
