Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.
Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears.
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.
I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?
At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.