Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
James ThurberColumbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
James ThurberEditing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
James Thurber