Who said “I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.”?

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”

“It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.”

“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 is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.”

“I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.”

“Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.”

“The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”

“Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.”

“A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.”

“Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.”