Who said “Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a…”?

“The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.”

“The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.”

“The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.”

“It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.”

“The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.”

“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”

“There's always something suspicious about an intellectual on the winning side.”

“True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?”

“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”

“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.”

“Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.”