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 THURBERAmericans want to go to heaven without dying.
JAMES THURBERHumourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
JAMES THURBERI never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
JAMES THURBERLet the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
JAMES THURBERMutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
JAMES THURBERAll men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
JAMES THURBERI am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
JAMES THURBERThe nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
JAMES THURBERSo much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
JAMES THURBERShe wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
JAMES THURBERThe wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
JAMES THURBERI can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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 THURBERWith sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
JAMES THURBERMan is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
JAMES THURBER