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!

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them.

My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.