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 that's true of everyone, don't you?

Quote by Tennessee Williams

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All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a...

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a...

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

All good art is an indiscretion.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as...

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as...

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

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

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

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know...

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know...

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it...

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it...

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends...

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends...

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits...

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits...

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

Funerals are pretty compared to death

Funerals are pretty compared to death

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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