Thornton Wilder

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

Many plays certainly mine are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

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.

I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young.And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn__ quite see the street you were in, and didn__ quite hear everything that was said to you.You__e just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?