People Say: Idle Curiosity. The One Thing

In The Dark Colony Of Night, When I Consider Man's Magnificent Capacity For Malice, Madness, Folly, Envy, Rage, And Destructiveness, And I Wonder Whether We Shall Not End Up As Breakfast For Newts And Polyps, I Seem To Hear The Muffled Cries Of All The Words In All The Books With Covers Closed.

The Only Thing I Can Say About W. C. Fields ... Is This: Any Man Who Hates Dogs And Babies Can't Be All Bad.

Many [of The Americans] Polled Showed A Marked Disapproval Of The Wallonians, Danerians, And Pirenians. The Fact That These Minorities Were Invented By The Pollster Did Not Diminish The Hostility.

Where There Is Too Much, Something Is Missing.

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.