533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one’s office for a job.

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

Sometimes – there’s God – so quickly!

Mexico is the front door to South America – and the back door to the states...

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.

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It’s the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let’s leave it like that.

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!

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