“Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.”
“I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)”
“We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.”
“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
“William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.”
“Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart”