Quotes from 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 - that's my philosophy.

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

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

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.

All excellence is equally difficult.

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

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.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

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

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder