We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

The mountain violets break the rocks.

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

Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!

Like 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?

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.