Tennessee Williams

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, books, loneliness, ennui, and more drugs.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply, to love deeply.

There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. There are just people.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

We're all under the same capricious sky.

The human animal is a fascinating beast.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Most of the tragedy in life comes from trying to live in the future, or live in the past.

Luck's always to blame.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.

The rest of my plays are just footnotes to A Streetcar Named Desire.

I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can a nude woman.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

Big Daddy: Truth, truth is pain and sweat and paying bills and making love to a woman that you don't love anymore. Truth is dreams that don't come true and nobody prints your name in the paper until you die.

I'm not living with you. I'm living in you.

The theatre is a place where you can wash your soul.

In memory everything seems to occur to music.

I think most writers write because they have a passion for something.

The tragedy of the American South is the tragedy of life.