Quotes from work

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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

“How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?”

“No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.”

“The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.”

“My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after theof life is--all--over….”

“It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.”

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

“Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.”

“I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)”

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

“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…”

“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”

“Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?”