Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Thornton WilderWe all know that something is eternal. And it ainโt houses and it ainโt names, and it ainโt earth, and it ainโt even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet youโd be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. Thereโs something way down deep thatโs eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN
Thornton WilderA dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.
Thornton WilderThe difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.
Thornton Wilder