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

I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

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.