If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.
James ThurberBoys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
James ThurberMuggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.
James ThurberI was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
James Thurber