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

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

There are few pleasures equal to that of imparting to a voracious learner the knowledge that one has grown old and weary in acquiring.

Yes, now you know. Now you know! That’s what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those . . . of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know — that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.