Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.

If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.