For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.

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.

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye.

These are the days of bootleg love.

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.

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.