If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?

It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it makes him able to write from the female point of view as well as the male. In some cases, of course, you will find some homosexual writers who can only write from a f - - -'s point of view. But I don't regard myself as a f - - -! Some people may. Also audiences wanted escapism. They don't like too much protest or criticism of their way of life.

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

I know all about the tyranny of women.

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.