Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

The process by which the idea for a play comes to me has always been something I really couldn't pinpoint. A play just seems to materialize; like an apparition, it gets clearer and clearer and clearer. It's very vague at first, as in the case of Streetcar, which came after Menagerie. I simply had the vision of a woman in her late youth. She was sitting in a chair all alone by a window with the moonlight streaming in on her desolate face, and she'd been stood up by the man she planned to marry.

Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip.

I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.