Oh, I've got something wonderful to read to you. This is a- a little letter to Ruth Gordon and it's-- was published in her book, not in the book of letters that has just recently been published, and he had a nickname for her, Bella. I don't know what it comes from but maybe "beautiful" or maybe just a sweet name. She was feeling very depressed about her work and her future and here is the letter.

"Dear Bella, here are four empty sheets of paper, enough to write the Gettysburg Address, enough to write 'To be or not to be,' enough to write the Twenty-Third Psalm. What will you write? The same with your day. What will you do with your day? Make it memorable, regretful, wasted, fulfilled? Think it over."

That "Think it over" and then he just signed it "T," but "Think it over" was uh.. a Thornton Wilder thing in conversation. He'd often say, "Think it over. Think it over." It's a lovely phrase, isn't it? Listen. It's just lovely to cheer someone up and to feel- to feel you're saying to someone, "You're worthwhile"? That's Thornton Wilder.