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“That’s your mistake. You think you’re stuffed with rose leaves? Turn around and look at it, it may do you good!... Now listen here to the anatomy lecture! This upper story’s the brain, which is hungry for something called truth and doesn’t get much but keeps on feeling hungry! This middle’s the belly which is hungry for food. This part down here is the sex which is hungry for love because it is sometimes lonesome. I’ve fed all three, as much of all three as I could, or as much as I wanted.—You’ve fed none—nothing. Well—maybe your belly a little—watery subsistence—but love or truth, nothing but—nothing but hand-me-down notions!—attitudes—poses! Now you can go.”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

“If medical practitioners wanted to save lives,” said Baxter, “instead of making money out of them, they would unite to prevent diseases, not work separately to cure them.”
― Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

“I’m beginning to feel almost like a water lily. A water lily on a Chinese lagoon.”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke

“It may strike you as unpleasant. But it does have a good deal to do with— connubial felicity, as you’d call it. There are some women that just give in to a man as a sort of obligation imposed on them by the—cruelty of nature! And there you are.”
― Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke