By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which …

I cannot write anything that I understand too well. If I know what something means to me, if I have already come to the end of it as an experience, I can't wri…

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he appr…

I invented something called The Oxford Muse. The Muses were women in mythology. They did not teach or require to be worshipped, but they were a source of inspi…

I'm a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat.

Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions- repressed.