I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in villains or heroes--only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or… — 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
It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was… — 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
