James Thurber Quotes

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon.

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.

Books can be burned,” croaked Black.

“They have a way of rising from the ashes,” said Andreus.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life."
"The firefly's ?" said the minstrel.
"The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

She has a memory of trees and fields and nothing more.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised