533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!

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

Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip...

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

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.