Tennessee Williams

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

—Tennessee Williams

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

—Tennessee Williams

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

—Tennessee Williams

To be free is to have achieved your life.

—Tennessee Williams

Don Quixote is the true American. . . . You do not have to look in many American eyes to suddenly meet somewhere the beautiful grave lunacy of his gaze.

—Tennessee Williams

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

—Tennessee Williams

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

—Tennessee Williams

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

—Tennessee Williams

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

—Tennessee Williams

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

—Tennessee Williams

Back of the sun and way deep under our feet, at the earth's center, are not a couple of noble mysteries but a couple of joke books.

—Tennessee Williams

Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else...

—Tennessee Williams