Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Security is a kind of death.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!