"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?"
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Source: Tennessee Williams (2012). “Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer”, p.27, New Directions Publishing
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