A dramatist is a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom.

"Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence . . ."

"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."

"William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland."

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.