I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
You said, ‘They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.’ ‘What,’ I asked you, ‘is harmless about a dreamer, and what,’ I asked you, ’is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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...
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of – and I can! I’m determined to do it – and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof – is there?
Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early – almost before you’re half-acquainted with life – you meet the other.
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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.
Life that winter in Rome: a golden dream, and I don’t mean Rafaello and the mimosa and the total freedom of life. Stop there: What I do mean is the total freedom of life and Rafaello and the mimosa and the letto matrimoniale and the Frascati when morning work was over.
When I was sixteen, I made the discovery – love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me.
He is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you.
There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.