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.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.