The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

A wet dog is lovingest.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn.