Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.