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.

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.

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

I have always had confidence in my own ability.