Thornton Wilder Quotes

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

The process of learning is accompanied by alternations of pain and brief quickening that resemble pain.

I am not interested in the ephemeral – such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

But there comes a time in everybody’s life when he must decide whether he’ll live among human beings or not – a fool among fools or a fool alone.

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It’s your combination sinners – your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards – who dishonour the vices and bring them into bad repute.

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year. Yes, sir! And a million is made by producing something that everybody needs every day. You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.