“Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.”
James Thurber“Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.”
James Thurber“The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.”
James Thurber“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
James Thurber“Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.”
James Thurber“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”
James Thurber“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”
James Thurber“But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?”
James Thurber“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
James Thurber“The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.”
James Thurber“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”
James Thurber