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.

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: “I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection.”

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself.

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.

If there’s one thing I can’t bear, it’s people who are wise during the event.

It is Ireland’s sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

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

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

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