Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.
Thornton WilderThe 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.
Thornton WilderThere is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
Thornton Wilder