Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

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

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.