Thornton WilderThinkers

Childhood is best when unhappy, for an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

The Critic is an unwelcome influence in the writing process. The important thing is that you make sure that neither the favorable nor the unfavorable critics move into your head and take part in the composition of your next work.

Future is the most expensive luxury in the world.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Literature is the orchestration to platitudes.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

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

Marriage is impossible without quarrelling — The fights are the best part of married life. The rest is merely so-so.

Public speaking is an activity whereby great talkers do not know their own thoughts until they hear them issuing from their mouths.

Quarrelling is vital to marriage — The fights are the best part of married life. The rest is merely so-so.

Saving money is overrated — Money should circulate like rainwater.