Tennessee Williams

"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."

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

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

"Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withered. Face it – pitiful monster."