Tennessee Williams

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

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

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.