The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape
Thornton WilderHope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton WilderThe knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
Thornton WilderThere are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.
Thornton Wilder