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

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

The unicorn is a mythical beast.

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.

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.