Thornton Wilder

That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those about you.

There is nothing like a photograph for keeping the dead in their place.

I want to tell you one thing. Let me tell you one thing. You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

The more we know, the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, knows.

A play ought to be a fairy tale, a fairy tale for grown-ups.

Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank checks. The director and the actors fill in the amounts. There is a line in the play that speaks of 'the attitude of the artist: nobly to accept the artist as a lonely man.'

The theater is the only place in the world where a small company of people can hold a large audience in its grip for two hours.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not the public of today.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure forces of the elements can be used to reveal the inner life of man.

To deserve to be continued, a work of art must be more than beautiful; it must be truthful.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

I am not interested in producing fiction that is only true to life.

The spirit of an age is often revealed in the trivial incidents of that age.

You swore that you would always remember.

People are meant to live by one another.

That's all human beings are! Animals.

I never meant to get mixed up in this about women.

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.