"A claustrophobe, Tennessee Williams always feared suffocation," Gore Vidal once remarked. "He strangled to death [in 1983, in a New York City hotel room full of half-finished bottles of wine and pills] from inhaling the cap from a plastic spray bottle."
["What one most fears," Vidal later wrote to Paul Bowles, "must fearfully happen."]
Sources
Vanity Fair, Oct. 2003, p. 310
