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

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

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

Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.

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...

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.