Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

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!

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

I know all about the tyranny of women.

Luck is believing you're lucky.