Tennessee Williams

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

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

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

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

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

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.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

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

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

You said, ''They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.'' -- ''What,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.''