"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job."
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Source: Tennessee Williams, Margaret Bradham Thornton (2006). “Notebooks”, p.682, Yale University Press
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