Thornton Wilder

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.