An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

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!

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.