“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.”
“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.”
Tennessee Williams
“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”
James Grissom“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.”
Tennessee Williams“It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature”
Tennessee Williams“Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams”
James Grissom“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
Tennessee Williams, Conversations with Tennessee Williams“People go to the movies instead of moving.”
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie“Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.--Blanche Dubois”
Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire“...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...”
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays“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.”
Tennessee Williams“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.”
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