Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
~ Tennessee Williams - [Time and Time Management]

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
~ Tennessee Williams - [Crisis]

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
~ Tennessee Williams - [Loneliness]

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
~ Tennessee Williams - [Suspicion]

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
~ Tennessee Williams - [Humankind]

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
~ Tennessee Williams - [Isolation]

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
~ Tennessee Williams - [Loneliness]

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
~ Tennessee Williams - [Money]

You said, ''They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.'' -- ''What,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.''
~ Tennessee Williams - [Revolutions and Revolutionaries]

You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.
~ Tennessee Williams - [Women]