Tennessee Williams

“A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages.”

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”

“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”

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

“I don't want realism. I want magic!”

“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”

“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.”

“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”

“Luck is believing you're lucky.”

“Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.”

“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”

“Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.”

“The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.”

“Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable.”