Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee WilliamsBut since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.
Tennessee WilliamsA man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
Tennessee WilliamsOf course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.
Tennessee Williams