A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing

— Tennessee Williams

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

— Tennessee Williams

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

— Tennessee Williams

All good art is an indiscretion.

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Tennessee Williams

And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.

— Tennessee Williams

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Tennessee Williams

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 Email 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")

— Tennessee Williams

Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft. The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather. Gutman:That may be true. But what can you do about it? Byron:Make a departure. Gutman:From yourself? Byron:From my present self to myself as I used to be! Gutman:That's the furthest departure a man could make!

— Tennessee Williams