Thornton Wilder

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

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

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

It's when you are safe at home that you're having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

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

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.

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. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know - that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.