The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.

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!

Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

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.

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.