"I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick.' It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm."

- JAMES THURBER

"'You are all a lost generation,' Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home."

- JAMES THURBER

"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead."

-JAMES THURBER