Tennessee Williams

Because human beings dream of life everlasting, that's the reason! But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

That this kind of identification could happen was, for me at least, an explosive contradiction of the prevailing wisdom that a Broadway play with literary quality could not survive the banal tastes of the New York audience which allegedly insisted on plain sidewalk speech and instant linguistic familiarity.