3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams 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.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams 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.
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
3 December 2020 Tennessee Williams The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
