Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.
Thornton WilderCharacterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.
Thornton WilderThere is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.
Thornton WilderSome say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
Thornton Wilder