Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

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'.

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.

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.

Quick, name some towns in New Jersey