"A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence."

"We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it."

"The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade …"

"A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself."

"Useless, of course, to point out that the genesis of good plays is hardly ever abstract; that it tends, on the contra…"

"Lenny Bruce ... [is] the most original, free-speaking, wild-thinking gymnast of language this inhibited island has ev…"

"[A]t the end he had broken through frontiers of language and feeling that one had hitherto thought inviolable ..."

"I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences. I count myself as a…"

"I doubt if there are very many rational people in this world to whom the word "fuck" is particularly diabolical or re…"

"When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them."