Everybody is nothing until you love them.

I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on; change the angle; look at it in a different way tomorrow.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

The name of a person you love is more than language.