Quotes by 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.

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

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.

The best thing about animals is that they don’t talk much.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

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.