“Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you”

If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?

Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.

I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

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

This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.

I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.

Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

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

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

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

I am more faithful than I intended to be!

I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.

For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;

They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.

We all work together to pump each other up. Before the show [Aladdin], we give each other a pound on the back, like a sports team.