The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

- Thornton Wilder

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

- Thornton Wilder

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

- Thornton Wilder

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

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

- Thornton Wilder

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

- Thornton Wilder

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

- Thornton Wilder

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

- Thornton Wilder

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gi…

- Thornton Wilder