"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance."
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Source: Tennessee Williams (1979). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.4, Dramatists Play Service Inc
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