"And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters"

“Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.”

“Having been a theater person first, you have the whole character, and you see the arc of the character in a play. And then when you do a movie, you have the whole character - or, if it's a small role, there's not much arc, but you see what the whole part is.”

“Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree”

Source : "Hideki Tojo's Prison Diary". "The Journal of Historical Review", Vol. 12, No. 1, (pp. 31-85), www.ihr.org. 1992.

“No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.”

“Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.”

“The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.”

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”

“Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?”

Source : Tennessee Williams (1966). “27 Wagons Full of Cotton: And Other One-act Plays”, p.233, New Directions Publishing