Tennessee Williams

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

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.

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

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.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

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

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

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.

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

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.