Lillian Hellman

"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."

- Lillian Hellman

"Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"

- Lillian Hellman

"Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don’t get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell."

- Lillian Hellman

"People change and forget to tell each other."

- Lillian Hellman

"Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all."

- Lillian Hellman

"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."

- Lillian Hellman