Tennessee Williams Quotes: 16

• All good art is an indiscretion.

• Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

• If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

  Conversations with Tennessee Williams

• Time is the longest distance between two places.

  The Glass Menagerie

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

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• 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.

• 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.

  A Streetcar Named Desire

• Success and failure are equally disastrous.

• Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

• Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

  Camino Real

• Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

  The Glass Menagerie

• You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

• Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

• Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

• Mendacity is a system that we live in,"declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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