Tennessee Williams: "All cruel people describe..."

"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness!"

—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

Tennessee Williams: "Acceptance of not knowing..."

"Acceptance of not knowing anything but the moment of still existing, until we stop existing - and acceptance of that moment, too."

—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

Tennessee Williams: "You're a fool if..."

"You're a fool... if you don't know that finally, sooner or later, you need somebody or something to mean God to you."

—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

Tennessee Williams: "Then it gets dark..."

"Then it gets dark. We're left alone with each other: we have to creep close to each other before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's miracles."

—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

Tennessee Williams: "I think the truth..."

"I think the truth is too delicate and, well, dangerous to be played with.  It has to be handled with the carefullest care, or somebody hurts somebody and gets hurt back."

—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

Tennessee Williams: "Liquor improves my concentration."

"Liquor improves my concentration."

—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

Tennessee Williams: "Some people don't need..."

"Some people don't need love, if you can call 'em people, but I do, it's the breath of life to me..."

—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

Julia Cameron: "I want time to..."

"I want time to walk, not run.  I'd go so far as to say I want time to dawdle."

—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life

Julia Cameron: "His love of music..."

"His love of music shimmers off of him."

—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life

Julia Cameron: "God lives in the..."

"God lives in the park, I am convinced."

—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life

Julia Cameron: "I feel like writing..."

"I feel like writing, but I am afraid I have lost my voice."

—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life

Julia Cameron: "I realized that I..."

"I realized that I was probably in the best position of my life.  I may not yet have all that I want but I have far more than I've ever had previously."

—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life

Julia Cameron: "All it takes is..."

"All it takes is the humility to try again."

—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life

Julia Cameron: "It's so full of..."

"It's so full of promise.  As it stands, it's halfway terrific and halfway flawed."

—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life

Julia Cameron: "What we can't master..."

"What we can't master today, we might well master tomorrow.  Our skills may catch up to our vision after all."

—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life

Julia Cameron: "The artist's life can..."

"The artist's life can be tumultuous, and yet I chose it - and choose it again on a daily basis."

—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life

Julia Cameron: "If I slow down..."

"If I slow down, life is beautiful."

—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life

Julia Cameron: "And so I take..."

"And so I take a deep breath, trying to fill my lungs with oxygen and my life with gratitude.  Gratitude slows down the pace.  Gratitude renders the glass half full."

—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life

Julia Cameron: "Left to my own..."

"Left to my own devices, I just spin around."

—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life