Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

— Thornton Wilder

Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.

— Thornton Wilder

Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as seldom as does love by the senses. Frustrated, it creates even greater havoc, for like all love it is a madness.

— Thornton Wilder

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

— Thornton Wilder

Many plays certainly mine are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

— Thornton Wilder

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

— Thornton Wilder

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

— 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.

— 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.

— Thornton Wilder

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

— Thornton Wilder