“You can hone a speech to a point where it’s actually better, but in the end you don’t believe it–it’s too clever, sort of joke-planted all the time; it’s always possible to make things funnier. But you can see the truth running out of the door.”
Alan Ayckbourn (quoted in Paul Allen, Alan Ayckbourn: Grinning at the Edge)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
