"I Said I Had Pleurosis and You Thought I Said Blue Roses."

In Japan, the world's first genetically modified blue roses are available for sale. 

The blue color comes from a gene that synthesizes blue pigment in pansies.

Pansies. Funny. Emory from The Boys in the Band was right.

"Oh, Mary, it takes a fairy to make something pretty."

But now, sadly, Laura Wingfield is no longer "one times one."

"I wish you were my sister. I'd teach you to have some confidence in yourself. The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just stay here. They're common as — weeds, but — you — well, you're — Blue Roses!"

- The Gentleman Caller in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

P.S. I was the worst Tom Wingfield in the history of theatre as we know it. It's sad but true. The director insisted that I... 

pause after... 

almost every... 

word... 

because... 

Tom is a writer and he... 

chooses his words... 

carefully.

Imagine "Blow out your candles, Laura" being spoken by William Shatner. 

Yeah, it was that bad.