It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

You're terrific as far as I am concerned.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

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