I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
JAMES THURBERI have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
JAMES THURBERComedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
JAMES THURBERIf you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
JAMES THURBERHumor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
JAMES THURBERDiscussion in America means dissent.
JAMES THURBERFor one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
JAMES THURBERMan is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
JAMES THURBERThere is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
JAMES THURBERMutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
JAMES THURBERThe trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
JAMES THURBERYou can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
JAMES THURBERHumor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
JAMES THURBERThe unicorn is a mythical beast.
JAMES THURBERSo much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
JAMES THURBERReason is 6/7 of treason.
JAMES THURBERThere is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
JAMES THURBER