Thornton Wilder Novelist Quotations

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

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

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.