Andy Scott

“I don't want realism. I want magic!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“She was one of the few stay-at-home moms in Ramsey Hill and was famously averse to speaking well of herself or ill of anybody else. She said that she expected to be “beheaded” someday by one of the windows whose sash chains she’d replaced. Her children were “probably” dying of trichinosis from pork she’d undercooked. She wondered if her “addiction” to paint-stripper fumes might be related to her “never” reading books anymore. She confided that she’d been “forbidden” to fertilize Walter’s flowers after what had happened “last time.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.”
― Tennessee Williams

“Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof