We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

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

Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.