"Is that what love is? Using people? And maybe that's what hate is - not being able to use people."

"[being sedated] Who was it that said we were all a bunch of kindergarteners trying to spell God's name with the wrong…"

"I've buried a husband and a son. I'm a widow and a... Funny, there's no word. Lose your parents, you're an orphan. Lo…"

"Strictly speaking, his life was his occupation. Yes, yes, Sebastian was a poet. That's what I meant when I said his l…"

"Most people's lives, what are they but trails of debris - each day more debris, more debris... long, long trails of d…"

"Sebastian said, 'Truth is the bottom of a bottomless well.'"

"My son, Sebastian and I constructed our days. Each day we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture, leaving beh…"

"Nature is not made in the image of man's compassion."

"Katharine Hepburn — Mrs. Venable"

"Elizabeth Taylor — Catherine Holly"