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’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

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

Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!

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

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.