TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

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

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

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.

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

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

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

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

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.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

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.

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.

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

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?