Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

- Tennessee Williams

We're all of us 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

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

- Tennessee Williams

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

- Tennessee Williams

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

- Tennessee Williams

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

- Tennessee Williams

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

- 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

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

- Tennessee Williams

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

- Tennessee Williams

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

- Tennessee Williams

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

- Tennessee Williams

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

- Tennessee Williams

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

- Tennessee Williams

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

- Tennessee Williams

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

- Tennessee Williams

For time is the longest distance between two places.

- Tennessee Williams

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

- Tennessee Williams

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

- Tennessee Williams