Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions.

Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.