It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. – 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. – 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
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. – Thornton Wilder