Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. James Thurber Read Quote
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. James Thurber Read Quote
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. James Thurber Read Quote
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one’s poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed – but never the husband). James Thurber Read Quote
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. James Thurber Read Quote
The difference between our decadence and the Russians’ is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. James Thurber Read Quote
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. James Thurber Read Quote
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve not seen! James Thurber Read Quote
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. James Thurber Read Quote
