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

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.

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.

To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”

A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.

I refuse to accept the idea that money is evil. People make things evil and negative.

Grace is God’s acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you’re destined to become.