A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.