"There is something I don't think you understand--that I don't think many people understand: There is a lack of control over one's artistic destiny that is pernicious and perilous. All of us enter the arts unaware if our timing has been wise, and all of us wonder who will meet us and husband us and support us. Timing is everything, as is tact. Luck is everything, not only in your arrival time, the allocation of talent among writers and directors and actors, but in what you were given at birth and how you chose to nurture, highlight, minimize, burnish it. Every moment of life matters--how you use the limited time given; how you recuperate from what it does to you; what you learn from the wear."
- Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom
[Follies of God]
