Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.

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

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

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

My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.

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.

Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!