Thornton Wilder

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

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

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

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.