I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.

In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

The unicorn is a mythical beast.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

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.