Quotes By Thornton Wilder

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

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

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

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 gifts.