Williams quotes

• "I have followed the developing tension and anger and violence of the world and the time that I live in"
• "Tennessee Williams equals Blanche" - Elia Kazan
• "the destructive impact of society on the sensitive, non-conforming individual"
• Without the rape "the play loses its meaning, which is the ravishment of the tender, the sensitive, the delicate, by the savage and brutal forces of modern society"
• "the present plague of violence and horror"
• Madness is "much uglier and more terrible than death"