“I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in schools, but those plucked from the human heart, the searing conditions of isolation. I did not have to be limited to my biography because of words, and I shared this with Faulkner, who invented new words and punctuation and expression and worlds. He utterly reshaped the world.”

“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.”