Mel Gussow Quotations

On her pages sacred cows become blustering pachyderms.

Genet was an actor in the play of his life, putting on masks, rearranging facts to suit his purpose and clouding himself in mystique.

Bring a child and ignore your inhibitions.

More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention of Love (his portrait of the poet and scholar A. E. Housman) -- with characters from life and literature. But one cannot always tell the difference between those who are real and those who are imaginary.

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.