"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me."
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Source: Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin, Nancy Marie Patterson Tischler (2002). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: 1920-1945”, p.341, New Directions Publishing
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