If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
Nothing human disgusts me unless it’s unkind.
All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let’s leave it like that.
Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?
There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts...
Nobody sees anybody truly but only through the flaws of their own ego.
If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip...
They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families.
Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
People go to the movies instead of moving.
And so tonight we’re going to make the lie true, and when that’s done, I’ll bring the liquor back here and we’ll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...