A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Be obscure clearly.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating."
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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It should restate and clarify the social dilemma and the political pickle. Once in a while it does, and you get a quick glimpse of its potential.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.
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The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
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The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss-a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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