The test of an adventure is that when youre in the middle of it, you say to yourself, Oh, now Ive got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that somethings wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure. – Thornton Wilder
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. – Thornton Wilder
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. – Thornton Wilder
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. – Thornton Wilder
There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, What is going on? You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that. – Wesley Morris