When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest ha — Thornton Wilder

"I hold that we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility."

"I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island."

"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes."

"Many plays — certainly mine — are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."

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

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"yes is a pleasant country... love is a deeper season than reason"

"true lovers in each happening of their hearts live longer than all which and every who"

"What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way."

"Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flower Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God! God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!"

"Unchanged within, to see all changed without, Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt. Yet why at others Wanings shouldst thou fret? Then only mightst thou feel a just regret, Hadst thou withheld thy love or hid thy light In selfish forethought of neglect and slight."