We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.

When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.

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.

Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?

-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois