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...

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

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing

I know! WHY! – Am I so catty? – Cause I’m consumed with envy an’ eaten up with longing? –

But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and takes with it your whole real life.

Ignorance need not remove the crown on the head of a king before making him a slave

This proves Indians do nothing else but surf the Web.

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

Motivation has to come from within. I make up my mind to shoot for the moon. Even if I don't make it, I'll be among the stars.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.