Thornton Wilder — American Novelist born on April 17, 1897, died on December 07, 1975

Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day... (wikipedia)

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.