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

People have always needed art: but why have they needed it? And what shaped the forms by which they satisfied their need? … In the arts form tends to be conservative, and content to be revolutionary; it is novelty of content that precedes, demands and imposes novelty of form.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

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