America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.

Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!

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

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...

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.