Quotes by Tennessee Williams

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

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.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

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