“You cannot–must not–speak of [Maria] Callas as a woman, as an artist. She’s so much bigger and more important than both those things. Callas is like a mountain or a country or the moon. I would sacrifice several hundred stars in the sky for the decades she dazzled me, dazzled us. Very rarely, but very beautifully, God makes a wonderful mistake on that assembly line of humanity onto which he throws some plasma, some platitudes, and a vestige of industry and he creates something remarkable. Callas is in the small group of remarkable things.”-Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom #FolliesofGod
"Violetta had never known love and had even fled from it in fear. She feared that, in giving herself to love, she would end up losing her cold ability to play with life." - Maria Callas, 1955, in costume as Violetta in La Traviata