The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.

-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

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

Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.