Tennessee Williams

Alcohol won't change anything, but it will make you forget.

A poet's function is to make us more sensitive to beauty.

Life is a dream, but the dream is real.

I was a homosexual when it was illegal and dangerous.

The South is a queer, mysterious place.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings.

Playwriting is the last refuge of the ex-libertine.

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof.

The bird that flies from the snares of the fowler is the one that has the widest view.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria.

Truth doesn't take effort. It just is.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself.

In the wintertime, the sun is so small and the sky so vast.

Poetry is the most beautiful form of self-deception.

Loneliness is the central fact of human existence.

The stage is a world of imagination, not reality.

Desire is the root of all human suffering.

I always felt that writing was my true vocation.