The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

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.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.