“The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.”

The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.

Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois

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!

Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

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.

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.

In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman’s right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision.

Boundaries, and countries, if we don’t have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..

Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other’s battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.