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.

Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

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.

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

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