The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

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.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.