Tennessee Williams

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

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

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.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

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

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

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

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

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?

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.