Quotes by Wilder, Thornton

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immedi >>

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you >>

A play visibly represents pure existing. >>

Quotations about Comedy and Comedians

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity a >>

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success >>

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. >>

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

Wilder, Thornton