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.

A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody'.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.