Thornton Wilder

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.