
“Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.”
Quoted by Thornton Wilder, interview (December 14-15, 1956) with Richard Goldstone, The Paris Review: Writers at Work, First Series (1958)
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.”
Quoted by Thornton Wilder, interview (December 14-15, 1956) with Richard Goldstone, The Paris Review: Writers at Work, First Series (1958)
“Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 22
“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”
1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
“Baby, baby let me sleep on it
Let me sleep on it
And I'll give you my answer in the morning…”
Bat out of Hell (1977), Paradise by the Dashboard Light
“A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.”
Source: Mr. Wrong