» If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
» I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
» We see things as we are, not as they are.
» In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
» Extremists think ''communication'' means agreeing with them.
» Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.
» Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
» Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
» Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
» Satire is focused bitterness.