I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe helpless can’t help the helpless.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI am more faithful than I intended to be!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t want realism. I want magic!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYour belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS