I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

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...

Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.

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.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?