The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James ThurberI can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
James ThurberI loathe the expression โWhat makes him tick.โ It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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