Tennessee Williams

"Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- …"

"You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it."

"Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory."

"You said, "They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people." — "What," I asked you, "is harmless about a dreamer, and what," I asked you, "is harmless about the love of the people? — Revolut…"

"We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."

"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 — barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of si…"

"Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down… So chew your food and give y…"

"Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence."