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

Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

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.

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.