Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

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.

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

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.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.