I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people and with violent material. I don't regret having… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people? — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s secret plans… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image