O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

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

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.

Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.

Satire is focused bitterness.

It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.