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.
James ThurberMutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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 ThurberI don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintยold man propaganda.
James ThurberI have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how far is Up, how long it takes to get Away, and what becomes of Gone. I have discovered the length of the sea serpent, the price of priceless, and the square of the hippopotamus. I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens, how much Is you have to have to make an Are, and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132, if it would interest you.
James Thurber