The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think thats true of everyone, dont you? – Tennessee Williams
Were all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. – Tennessee Williams
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it wont come out while youre watching. – Tennessee Williams
You can be young without money but you cant be old without it. – Tennessee Williams
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
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an deaths the other. – Tennessee Williams
For time is the longest distance between two places. – Tennessee Williams
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. – Tennessee Williams
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. – Tennessee Williams
In memory everything seems to happen to music. – Tennessee Williams
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. – Tennessee Williams
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. – Tennessee Williams
To be free is to have achieved your life. – Tennessee Williams
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. – Tennessee Williams
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. – Tennessee Williams
Success and failure are equally disastrous. – Tennessee Williams
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. – Tennessee Williams
All good art is an indiscretion. – Tennessee Williams
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. – Tennessee Williams
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. – Tennessee Williams
