Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
Thinking is harder work than hard work.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.