A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment. Thornton Wilder More Quotes by Thornton Wilder More Quotes From Thornton Wilder My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy. Thornton Wilder I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. Thornton Wilder human-being theatre way art There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. Thornton Wilder your nothing you world But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone. Thornton Wilder alone moment fool life For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? Thornton Wilder seem does human dawn The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. Thornton Wilder animals about talk best Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder she make think marriage