The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
James ThurberA false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
James ThurberSurely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.
James ThurberA peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.
James Thurber