Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

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

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

I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.