"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag."
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Source: Tennessee Williams, Margaret Bradham Thornton (2006). “Notebooks”, p.15, Yale University Press
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