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

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

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

And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.

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

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!