“But nothing happened there now of a nature to provoke a disturbance. There were no complaints to the management or the police, and the dark glory of the upper galleries was a legend in such memories as that of the late Emiel Kroger and the present Pablo Gonzales, and one by one, of course, those memories died out and the legend died out with them. Places like the Joy Rio and the legends about them make one more than usually aware of the short bloom and the long fading out of things. ("The Mysteries of the Joy Rio")”

“All of us are seeking a home, and I don't mean where we were born, or where we now live and have things, but where we can do the big things, the right things. Where we belong, where we fit, where we're loved."--Tennessee Williams, "Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog”

“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.”

“It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature”

“Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams”

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”

“People go to the movies instead of moving.”

“Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.--Blanche Dubois”

“...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...”

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

“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.”