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.
Tennessee WilliamsEveryone 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!
Tennessee WilliamsYou are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.
Tennessee WilliamsAt the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
Tennessee WilliamsOnly some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.
Tennessee WilliamsWhy, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!
Tennessee Williams