“ My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. Thornton Wilder
“ So - people a thousand years from now...This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying. Thornton Wilder
“ Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. Thornton Wilder
“ If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good Thornton Wilder
“ Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. Thornton Wilder
“ The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama. Thornton Wilder
“ When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness s… Thornton Wilder
“ We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it. Thornton Wilder
“ Many plays certainly mine are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. Thornton Wilder
“ I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. Thornton Wilder
“ That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer. Thornton Wilder
“ Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. Thornton Wilder
“ The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. Thornton Wilder
