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...
Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
I know all about the tyranny of women.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Luck is believing you’re lucky.
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.